## **– Trustees Annual Report September 2024 August 2025** 

This year we send less children to school. This being 12 children to 5 local schools around Taunton. This meant that we have had a busier than normal September with fewer spaces to new children. We had a few new children join us in January but not as many as we would have liked. However, due to the expansion of the Working Family funding, all children from 9 months, if they meet the criteria were able to claim 30/22 hours per week of funding. Which has helped our finances as this has brought more babies into the setting, which hopefully means they will stay until they leave for school. 

April saw yet another increase in both the national minimum wage and national insurance contributions. However, as a business it means we struggle to find the extra income to cover the increase, along with the higher inflation rate meaning everything is more expensive. 

We have not lost any staff this financial year, which is a real positive. We have even managed to find two new apprentices, starting in April 2025 and a level 2 practitioner, who started in October 2024. We continue to have very good staff retention. This is why we are very lucky, as qualified, experienced staff are leaving the childcare sector at a higher rate than ever before. It is also extremely hard to find suitable staff due to the increasing word load in early years. 

Even with higher numbers of children, we have been able to take them on some external trips. These have included trips on buses and visits to the local museum, which both the staff and more importantly the children have thoroughly enjoyed, and we will hope to continue doing these going forward. The also children thoroughly enjoy visiting the local library, at least once a week for rhyme time and story. 

Over the summer, we continued to build links with the local community, something which is very important to us as a setting. We also like visiting the pride in Priorswood event, that happens every Tuesday during the summer holidays. 

Another has passed at Brook Green, we have been more fortunate than others with many settings having to close over the last finical year due to the finical restraint. 

Hears to another (hopefully) positive new year at Brook Green. 



BROOK GREEN EARLY YEARS
ACCOUNTS
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BROOK GREEN EARLY YEARS
INCOME AND EXPENDrnJRE ACCOUNT
YEAR ENDED 31ST AUGUST 2025
Accumulated Balance brwht forward from 31st August 2024
18.395.79
INCOME
Fees (Parents)
2 & 3 year old Funding Grant
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Higher Needs Funding
Grants
Other
Fundraisin9
104.212.87
197,917.59
7.668.87
600.00
2,008.08
Total income for year
312.407.85
EXPENDrruRE
staff wa9eS
NI/Tax
staff Training
Pension Contributions
Recruitment
Rates
Premises Costs
Phone/Internet
Cleaning
EXPENDrnJRE (cont'd)
185,696.37
41,032.80
146.00
8.800.00
387.73
3.745.20
5.629.00
706.04
12,325.29
Food
6.763.27

Nursery Equipment
Ofsted Fee
Nursery Insurance
Nursery MISC
Off ice Consumables
Off ice Equipment
Sage/Software
11.557.71
220.00
2.221.00
2.520.11
816.00
557.80
2,931.39
Total expenditure for year
288.796.62

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